I saw this article awhile ago and it pissed me off as a Mexican. I remember that people used to think Mexicans only ate tortillas. There was actually a major push by our neighborhood grocery store to get Wonderbread in our stores because people wanted them, but the idiots were too dumb to realize that Mexicans liked regular bread just fine.

Now some idiot wants to put up walls that others have been trying to tear down? She doesn't speak for me or for my family.

Here is the problemGlenn Singleton’s “Coaching for Educational Equity,” a weeklong seminar on race and how it affects life; she’s also become an “affiliate,” certified to teach the equity curriculum; and she serves on the district’s administrative committee to address systematic racism, a group that meets every other week.

This came to my work also. All about opression and white privelege and recruiting pyramid scheme of vendors. Who were also to marketing downwards.

There is a scene in the movie Margaret (2011) that fits very well with this story.

After witnessing a fatal bus crash, a young woman believes she inadvertently played a part in the tragedy. As she tries to deal with her feelings, she becomes emotionally abusive to those around her -- and to herself.

The scene I'm referring took place in a classroom and there was, what appeared to me was a classroom monitor... A rabbit hole if you ask who is monitoring the monitor? and where are they from and what god do they prey to?

Please be quiet about this. Verenice Gutierrez, a blessing of diversity since her parents came here from Mexico - is merely saying that peanut butter and jelly is evil. Because it holds oppressed hispanic and black students behind on this sandwich of white privilege and white supremacy.

(BTW, her school is 75% 3rd Worlders and 85% of them get free lunches, free school suppies, and free breakfasts courtesy of white oppressors. Who also pay Verenice's salary)Soon each kid may have his or her own free ObamaPhone!250-300 free minutes!

I hesitate to mention this to others and hope the press rapidly buries it as she hoped to do with white oppressor cuisine!!

Repeat it or say it disgusts you...and you are a RACIST!RACIST!RACIST!RACIST!!

Now fall on your knees and beg the Left not to accuse you of being racist, antiSemitic, Islamophobic, anti gay bigot, or sexist.!!!!

Racist is Democrats darkening Mia Love's photo for their campaign ad--just like they did for Jidhal in Louisiana in 2003. For Allen West, they did go classy with an animation showing him punching a white woman, though. So at least they know more than one race-baiting trick. But Jimmy Carter who bombarded citizens of Georgia with an ad showing his opponent hanging with his fellow basketball players and coaches--all black-- could have told you that.

Snark is not generally a compelling argument; this absurdity is of a kind with Ann's "Obama Phone" critique, though dissimilar in degree. I suspect that there is a generational issue at work, but as a millennial I find this boomer race neurosis maddening. Both of these accusations count on "dog whistles." We're supposed to know that bread is a white cultural item and that mooching is a black cultural trait and therefore they're racist. Yet, we're not supposed to pay attention to race; the only way to not be racist is to judge someone on the content of their character instead of the color of their skin.

Well pick one. I can either do my level best to ignore a person's race and treat everyone the same, or I can be completely conscious of how everything I say and do might be racially tinged. If I do the one, I'm racist for ignoring the other and vice versa. If everything is racist, then nothing is.

I got the feeling that a lot of it is her trying to validate taking that "Coaching for Educational Equity" seminar and possibly creating reasons that will create a need for others to take the seminar from her.

“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?,” she said. “Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”

So people of Somali or Hispanic hertiage aren't, or can't be, American?

But talking to a mixed group of people and assuming everyone knows what a PBJ is and likes it ALSO isn't racist (it isn't intended to discriminate, it isn't from hate or fear of the Other, it isn't part of a program of intimidation, etc)

But it is an example of majority culture privilege. And a teacher with a bunch of 'diverse' kids should probably do as suggested.

The problem is we don't keep new immigrants on ellis island for a few months teaching them about PBJs and such.

I live among immigrants, thousands of them, next door close ... and I guarantee you every one of them who has been here a week knows what a PBJ is...you CAN make one with Pita bread you know...and I've yet to see an Arabic grocery with out peanut butter and jams by the shelf full. Same thing over in Mexican town.

The issue isn't feeding the kids PB&J it's teachers using a PB&J sandwich as an example of something in class. Because it has a cultural context that immigrants or non-whites might not relate to.

I skimmed the comments and most of them were talking about what is served in the cafeteria. One fellow, though, said something like... "So if I talk to the black kids about fried chicken and the hispanic kids about beans, then I'm NOT a racist?"

Which I felt was a darn good point. Birches made the same point here. Do I change what I use as examples and only talk to the hispanic kids about beans and tortillas? Kids can't understand what a sandwich is if they usually eat middle eastern style flatbreads? (Pita? Seriously stupid hispanic principal lady, you're going to insist this is pita bread?)

The result is, of course, that no one dares open their mouth because they're going to get in trouble when they least expect it. One lady described the environment at her children's (former) school as just that.

The other thing, the "drum club for black and brown boys" that "hasn't turned anyone away" she justifies as "there is nothing wrong when it's a white boy club." This woman doesn't live on this planet.

Apparently, anything that isn't specifically a brown and black boys club is a white boys club in her world, on her planet.

Schools around here have Mariachi bands (honest they do) and I'm pretty sure that they are presented as a Mariachi band and not "a band for hispanic students."

She couldn't just have a lunch time drum club for *students* or even for boys? She has to have a drum club for black and hispanic boys? Which white and asian boys aren't supposed to feel excluded from joining?

Well, now, PB&J happens to be vegetarian. But I do think it is necessary to invite PETA to these classrooms. And also Vegans, hunters, and the guy on the radio add who pretends like he is bacon on your grill and wants you to eat him.

All of these minority groups must have representation. Somewhere they are ought there pushing agendas, and the middle demands it. And while we are at it, MO should go to every school to explain why her fat ass is OK, but not on anyone else.

Including the cookie, and M&M characters. They have been under represented too. And Coke, and pepsi.

Only then can a fair representation of all the cultural forces be presented.